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A Ref's Life: Learning the feel
National Hockey League

A Ref's Life: Learning the feel

Published Nov. 30, 2009 6:00 p.m. ET

"Go buy yourselves new hats. What you need to do is lift the brim of your hat up and get a new level of expectation, get a new horizon, because your horizon is unrealistic. You want perfect-plus and you're not going to get it, so don't kid yourself." — Director of ECAC officiating and former NHL referee Paul Stewart.

Nearly every game referees get criticized and quite often those doing the talking have never seen hockey from the unique angle of an on-ice official who is right in the middle of the action.

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